Police intending to beat Sex Offender, beat his brother instead.
A brutal beating at the hands of Sweetwater, Florida police was caught on a Ring Doorbell. Police looking for a man required to register as a sex offender, mistake his brother for their target.
Thankfully, the ring doorbell caught the beat down, so non-registrants can get a glimpse of how some police officers treat persons on the registry.
Can’t wait to see how the police department tries to play this one off!
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sorry I meant be disrepectful to me
I guess I am not giving enough monies so I reply to some of these post I am starting to think F.A.C is showing favoritism I can not replied to sean’s comment nor to register not offender’s comments
Make a handsome donation $$$ and then your comments will appear. lol. Nah I’m only kidding with you. Just thought it was amusing.
It might be that what you wrote was not appropriate or immaterial.
FAC has always been fair and direct and doesn’t show any favoritism on here. Not from what I have seen on the boards all these years.
All of my comments have been posted. So I guess my comments are alright. When I make comments I try to keep them civil, and if something upsets me enough I don’t immediately make a comment. I wait until I have calmed myself. I guess it is like getting angry and writing a nasty letter to someone and sending it immediately and later regretting that decision. I feel if you just write your thoughts out and set them aside for a while you can and will not send them. I also think about what I would feel like to receive that kind of communication. There is a lot of power in words and we must choose our words well. I thank FAC for letting me voice my opinions.
Joesph,
FAC is NOT playing “favorites” with anyone. Believe me, I found out the hard way that abrasive, antagonizing, inflammatory, and “off subject comments” will NOT be allowed on the site.
We all know the sex offender hit the cop & took off. We all know it is not “fair” that innocent people got beaten for another’s actions. We ALL know that the “Blue Line Flag” is actually a divisional line between cops and citizens.
If you want to see what is going on in this country; the disconnect between cops and citizens (registered or not) all one has to do is look on You Tube under 1st Amendment Audits. Police making up laws that dont exist, intimidation, violation of rights…..
Now add in the term “sex offender” and cops think they can get away with anything.
I know you are pissed (arent we all) that, that happened.
FAC is here to help us all. If they dont “control” some of the rhetoric on this site, they will lose control of the main purpose– which is to abolish the laws that government has put against all of us; that means not only the offenders, but families, kids, aunts, uncles, school functions.
If FAC doesnt have some control over the postings, this site will DEvolve into nothing more than an AOL Chatroom.
(HOW do I know all of this??)
I had MANY posts deleted. To the point that I got 2 phone calls and one e-mail asking me not to post anymore. I lost focus on what this site was for and all I was doing was b!tch!ing, P!$$’in & moaning for all the wrong reasons.
I took 2 weeks off, went back and started to read the archives. It brought me back to reality about what this site was really about.
Even after I was asked to leave 3 times, FAC started to accept my posts again.
I am NOT saying not to post your feelings and share. But when it starts to take an aggressive, nasty and inciteful tone towards the whole group, THAT is when FAC will step in.
I HOPE THIS HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND>
Well said!! We must remember that we are all…RSO’s…on the same team. All we are asking for is equal treatment with all other citizens. It is the duty of our police force to quell disturbances and peacefully turn over violators to the legal system. Sometimes this is not always possible but certainly should be the goal. Being a police officer must at times be a frustrating occupation but I thank God that we have those who are willing to do it. They are not always perfect in their actions and when imperfection affects their responses that same legal system that applies to you and me must also be applied to them. Civility is what will eventually restore RSO’s rights in the nation we so love.
Joseph, your comments were deleted because they insulted other members or were offensive (much like the assertion that posting has anything to do with donations).
While we welcome all opinions, your assertions that the family were probably criminals too and deserved it, or theory that the brothers might be identical twins with the suspect (and others that we chose not to post), completely miss the mark; that whether they are criminals, twins or whatever – police should not be beating people up and this ring doorbell gives the public some insight into mistreatment that would otherwise not have been believed.
Rather than allow the topic to be hijacked by irrelevant or argumentative posts, we cut it off, which led to a new theory that our site moderation is tied to money – which is absurd.
Sean gave you some good advise and his experience is valuable. Sometimes our anger and frustration clouds our vision to the point that we lose track of who we are arguing with. He refocused his perspective and is now one of our most valued and insightful commenters.
Our population gets enough harassment and mistreatment – they don’t need to find the same here.
Regardless of what the registered citizen did, law enforcement has no right to beat him or his family members down. If the Sweetwater police chief “sees no wrongdoing,” I can only assume this is the way he has trained his police force to behave. He should be fired and never hold a position in law enforcement for the rest of his life. The deputies involved in the beatdown should also be fired, never hold a position in law enforcement for the rest of their lives, and prosecuted for 784.045 aggravated battery, a second-degree felony. The family needs to get a good lawyer ASAP and sue the f%ck out of Sweetwater!
I was about to write something much worse, however, if you pay attention to the story, the suspect they were looking for STRUCK the police vehicle and they thought the guy who answered the door was him, thus they were clearly pissed off at this guy. I’d like to think this kind of brutality wouldn’t have happened under normal circumstances.
Someone that’s a great writer should start a petition calling for the termination of the police involved and the chief
Don’t police have a certain proper way of doing things ? This sort of happened to me once with a mistaken identity a few years back. I was coming out of registration and as I walking to my car, police officers swarmed at me with their guns because they thought I was somebody else they were looking for. In the heat of the moment, they asked me if I was so and so and to see some ID. With my hands still on my head and knees on the ground, I slowly gave them my registration copy and told them I just literally finished registering and I wasn’t the man they were looking for. They confirmed it, apologized and went on their way and so did I. I had to bring my heart back to a regular beat first. lol. Its a scary thought when they mistake you for somebody else and who knows what might happen. It would also depend on the agency and the officers involved as well. Some are more professional than others I can imagine.